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Egyptian space satellite

EgyptSat-A
Spacecraft properties

Mission type	Earth observation satellite
Operator	NARSS
COSPAR ID	2019-008A
SATCAT no.	44047
Website	www.narss.sci.eg
Mission duration	Planned: 11 years


Bus	559GK
Manufacturer	RKK Energia


Start of mission
Launch date	February 21, 2019, 16:47 (2019-02-21UTC16:47Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-2.1b Fregat-M
Launch site	Baikonur 31/6
Contractor	Roscosmos


Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Sun-Synchronous
Altitude	668 kilometres (415 mi)


Main
Name	Multispectral imager (MSI)
Resolution	1 metre (3 ft 3 in) (Pan) 4 metres (13 ft) (MS)

EgyptSat← EgyptSat 2

EgyptSat-A or MisrSat A is Egypt's third Earth observation satellite following the EgyptSat 1 launched in 2007 and EgyptSat 2 launched in 2014. This satellite was built by the Egyptian National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences Jointly with Russian RKK Energia while the imaging payload was developed by OAO Peleng and NIRUP Geoinformatsionnye Sistemy in Belarus.

References

Sheldon, John (25 February 2019). "Egypt's EGYPTSAT-A Successfully Launched By Russia Despite Slight Launch Issue". SpaceWatch.Global. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
Graham, William (21 February 2019). "Soyuz 2-1b launches EgyptSat-A - suffers apparent issues - but deemed successful". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
"Space exploration in 2019". www.russianspaceweb.com. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
Zak, Anatoly (5 April 2019). "EgyptSat-A enters orbit after a close-call Soyuz launch". www.russianspaceweb.com. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
"Egypt launches Sat-A from Kazakhstan's 'Baikonur Cosmodrome'". EgyptToday. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
"EgyptSat A (MisrSat A)". space.skyrocket.de. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.

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February	Dousti† GSAT-31, SaudiGeoSat-1 / HellasSat-4 EgyptSat A, Helios Wire 4 Nusantara Satu / PSN 6, Beresheet, S5 OneWeb x6
March	Crew Dragon Demo-1 ChinaSat-6C Soyuz MS-12 WGS-10 PRISMA Lingque 1B† "Two Thumbs Up" (R3D2) Tianlian II-01
April	EMISAT, Astrocast 0.2, Bluewalker 1, Flock-4a × 20, Lemur-2 × 4, M6P Progress MS-11 O3b × 4 Arabsat-6A Cygnus NG-11 (NepaliSat-1, Raavana 1, Seeker) BeiDou-3 I1Q
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July	Meteor-M 2-2, CarboNIX, ICEYE X4, ICEYE X5, Lemur-2 × 8 Kosmos 2535, Kosmos 2536, Kosmos 2537, Kosmos 2538 Falcon Eye 1† Spektr-RG Soyuz MS-13 Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Pragyan SpaceX CRS-18 Yaogan 30-05 x3 Meridian 8 Progress MS-12
August	Blagovest-14L EDRS-C / HYLAS-3 Amos-17 AEHF-5 Tianqi-2, Qian Sheng-1 01 / Xingshidai-5 Chinasat 18 "Look Ma, No Hands" BlackSky Global 4 BRO 1 Pearl White × 2 Soyuz MS-14 GPS IIIA-02 Geo-IK-2 No.3 Taiji-1, Xiaoxiang 1-07
September	Ziyuan I-02D, Ice Pathfinder, Taurus 1 Zhuhai-1 x2 BeiDou-3 M23, M24 HTV-8 Yunhai-1 02 Soyuz MS-15 EKS-3
October	Gaofen 10R Eutelsat 5 West B, MEV-1 ICON "As The Crow Flies" Palisade TJS-4
November	Cygnus NG-12 (STPSat 4, HARP, HuskySat-1) Gaofen 7 BeiDou-3 I3Q Starlink V1.0-L1 (60 satellites) Jilin-1 Gaofen-02A BeiDou-3 M21, BeiDou-3 M22 Kosmos 2542, Kosmos 2543 Inmarsat-5 F5 Cartosat-3, Flock-4p × 12 Gaofen 12
December	SpaceX CRS-19 Unicorn-2B / NOOR-1A, Unicorn-2C / NOOR-1B Progress MS-13 Jilin-1 Gaofen-02B Kosmos 2544 / GLONASS-M 759 RISAT-2BR1, Lemur-2 × 4 BeiDou-3 M19, BeiDou-3 M20 JCSAT-18 / Kacific 1 CHEOPS, CSG-1, OPS-SAT CBERS-4A / Ziyuan I-04A, ETRSS-1, Tianqin-1 Starliner Boe-OFT Elektro-L No.3 Gonets-M × 3, BLITS-M Shijian 20
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